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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

GENERAL SERVICES 

ADMINISTRATION 

NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND 

SPACE ADMINISTRATION 

[OMB Control No. 9000–0189; Docket No. 

2024–0053; Sequence No. 21] 

Information Collection; Certain Federal 

Acquisition Regulation Part 4 

Requirements 

AGENCY: Department of Defense (DOD), 

General Services Administration (GSA), 

and National Aeronautics and Space 

Administration (NASA). 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, and 

the Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) regulations, DoD, GSA, and 

NASA invite the public to comment on 

an extension concerning certain Federal 

Acquisition Regulation (FAR) part 4 

requirements and a revision to address 

existing Commercial and Government 

Entity code requirements. DoD, GSA, 

and NASA invite comments on: whether 

the proposed collection of information 

is necessary for the proper performance 

of the functions of Federal Government 

acquisitions, including whether the 

information will have practical utility; 

the accuracy of the estimate of the 

burden of the proposed information 

collection; ways to enhance the quality, 

utility, and clarity of the information to 

be collected; and ways to minimize the 

burden of the information collection on 

respondents, including the use of 

automated collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology. 

OMB has approved this information 

collection for use through March 31, 

2025. DoD, GSA, and NASA propose 

that OMB extend its approval for use for 

three additional years beyond the 

current expiration date. 

DATES: DoD, GSA, and NASA will 

consider all comments received by 

February 18, 2025. 

ADDRESSES: DoD, GSA, and NASA 

invite interested persons to submit 

comments on this collection through 

https://www.regulations.gov and follow 

the instructions on the site. This website 

provides the ability to type short 

comments directly into the comment 

field or attach a file for lengthier 

comments. If there are difficulties 

submitting comments, contact the GSA 

Regulatory Secretariat Division at 202– 

501–4755 or GSARegSec@gsa.gov. 

Instructions: All items submitted 

must cite OMB Control No. 9000–0189, 

Certain Federal Acquisition Regulation 

Part 4 Requirements. Comments 

received generally will be posted 

without change to https://

www.regulations.gov, including any 

personal and/or business confidential 

information provided. To confirm 

receipt of your comment(s), please 

check www.regulations.gov, 

approximately two-to-three days after 

submission to verify posting. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Zenaida Delgado, Procurement Analyst, 

at telephone 202–969–7207, or 

zenaida.delgado@gsa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

A. OMB Control Number, Title, and 

Any Associated Form(s) 

9000–0189, Certain Federal 

Acquisition Regulation Part 4 

Requirements. 

B. Need and Uses 

This clearance covers the information 

that offerors and contractors must 

submit to comply with the following 

FAR requirements: 

1. FAR 52.204–3, and 52.212–3(l)— 

Taxpayer Identification Number (TIN) 

Information. When there is not a 

requirement to be registered in the 

System for Award Management (SAM), 

offerors are required to submit their TIN 

information by the provision at FAR 

52.204–3, Taxpayer Identification, for 

other than commercial acquisitions, and 

by paragraph (l) of the provision at FAR 

52.212–3, Offeror Representations and 

Certifications—Commercial Products 

and Commercial Services, for 

commercial acquisitions. 

The TIN information may be used by 

the Government to collect and report on 

any delinquent amounts arising out of 

the offeror’s relationship with the 

Government (31 U.S.C. 7701(c)(3)). If a 

contract is subject to the payment 

reporting requirements in FAR 4.904, 

the TIN may be matched with the 

Internal Revenue Service records to 

verify the accuracy of the TIN submitted 

by the offeror. 

2. FAR 52.204–6, 52.212–1(j), and 

52.204–12—Unique Entity Identifier. 

When there is not a requirement to be 

registered in SAM, offerors are required 

to submit their unique entity identifier 

by the provision at FAR 52.204–6, 

Unique Entity Identifier, for other than 

commercial acquisitions, and by 

paragraph (j) of the provision at FAR 

52.212–1, Instructions to Offerors— 

Commercial Products and Commercial 

Services, for commercial acquisitions. 

The clause at FAR 52.204–12, Unique 

Entity Identifier Maintenance, requires 

contractors to maintain their unique 

entity identifier with the organization 

designated in SAM to issue such 

identifiers, for the life of the contract. 

The clause also requires contractors to 

notify contracting officers of any 

changes to the unique entity identifier. 

The Government uses the unique 

entity identifier to identify contractors 

in reporting to the Federal Procurement 

Data System (FPDS). FPDS provides a 

comprehensive mechanism for 

assembling, organizing, and presenting 

contract placement data for the Federal 

Government. Contracting officers use a 

notification provided under FAR 

52.204–12 regarding any change to the 

unique entity identifier to modify 

contracts to reflect the updated unique 

entity identifier. 

3. FAR 52.204–7, 52.204–13, and 

52.212–3(b)—SAM Registration and 

Maintenance. The provision at FAR 

52.204–7, System for Award 

Management, requires offerors to be 

registered in SAM when submitting an 

offer or quotation and at time of award, 

except in certain limited cases, and to 

continue to be registered through final 

payment of any award that results from 

such offer. The clause at FAR 52.204– 

13, System for Award Management 

Maintenance, requires contractors to 

make sure their SAM data is kept 

current, accurate, and complete 

throughout contract performance and 

final payment; this maintenance is, at a 

minimum, to be done through an annual 

review and update of the contractor’s 

SAM registration. Paragraph (b) of the 

provision at FAR 52.212–3 contains the 

equivalent of FAR 52.204–7 and 52.204– 

13, for commercial acquisitions. 

The Government use the collected 

information to establish a common 

source of vendor data to increase 

visibility of vendor sources (including 

their geographical locations) for specific 

supplies and services. 

4. FAR 52.204–14, and 52.204–15— 

Service Contract Reporting 

Requirements. The clauses at FAR 

52.204–14, Service Contract Reporting 

Requirements, and FAR 52.204–15, 

Service Contract Reporting 

Requirements for Indefinite-Delivery 

Contracts, require contractors to report 

the following information in SAM 

annually: 

(a) Contract number and, as 

applicable, order number. 

(b) The total dollar amount invoiced 

for services performed during the 

previous Government fiscal year under 

each contract. 

(c) The number of contractor direct 

labor hours expended on the services 

performed during the previous 

Government fiscal year. 


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(d) Data reported by each first-tier 

subcontractor providing services under 

the contract if required to do so. 

Section 743 of Division C of the 

Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2010 

(Pub. L. 111–117) requires executive 

agencies covered by the Federal 

Activities Inventory Reform Act (Pub. L. 

105–270), except DoD, to submit to 

OMB an annual inventory of activities 

performed by service contractors. DoD is 

exempt from this reporting requirement 

because 10 U.S.C. 4505(c) already 

require DoD to develop an annual 

service contract inventory. Civilian 

agencies use the service contract 

information provided by FAR clauses 

52.204–14 and 52.204–15 to supplement 

agency annual service contract reporting 

requirements with the contractorprovided service contract reporting 

information. 

5. FAR 52.204–16 and 52.204–18, 

Commercial and Government Entity 

(CAGE) Code Reporting and 

Maintenance. The provision at FAR 

52.204–16, Commercial and 

Government Entity Code Reporting, 

require offerors to provide their CAGE 

code, including name and location 

address, with their offer. The CAGE 

code must be for that name and location 

address. The CAGE code is required 

prior to award. The clause at FAR 

52.204–18, Commercial and 

Government Entity Code Maintenance, 

requires contractors to maintain their 

CAGE code throughout the life of the 

contract for each location of contract, 

including subcontract, performance. 

For contractors registered in SAM, the 

Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) CAGE 

Branch shall only modify data received 

from SAM in the CAGE master file if the 

contractor initiates those changes via 

update of its SAM registration. 

Contractors undergoing a novation or 

change-of-name agreement shall notify 

the contracting officer in accordance 

with FAR subpart 42.12. The contractor 

shall communicate any change to the 

CAGE code to the contracting officer 

within 30 days after the change, so that 

a modification can be issued to update 

the CAGE code on the contract. 

Contractors located in the U.S. or its 

outlying areas that are not registered in 

SAM shall submit written change 

request to the DLA CAGE Branch. 

Contractors located outside the U.S. and 

its outlying areas that are not registered 

in SAM shall contact the appropriate 

National Codification Bureau points of 

contact to request CAGE changes. 

6. FAR 52.204–17, Ownership or 

Control of Offeror. This provision 

requires offerors to represent whether 

they are owned or controlled by another 

entity, and if so, to provide the CAGE 

code and name of such entity. 

The CAGE code system may be used, 

among other things, to— 

(a) Exchange data with another 

contracting activity, including contract 

administration activities and contract 

payment activities; 

(b) Exchange data with another 

system that requires the unique 

identification of a contractor entity; or 

(c) Identify when offerors are owned 

or controlled by another entity. 

7. FAR 52.204–20, Predecessor of 

Offeror. This provision requires offerors 

to identify if the offeror is, within the 

last three years, a successor to another 

entity that received a Federal 

Government award and, if so, to provide 

the CAGE code and legal name of the 

predecessor. 

The information on predecessors is 

used to identify such entities in the 

Federal Awardee Performance and 

Integrity Information System (FAPIIS) to 

allow retrieval of integrity and 

performance data on the most recent 

predecessor of an apparent successful 

offeror to whom award is anticipated. 

FAR 9.104–6 requires contracting 

officers to consult FAPIIS before 

awarding a contract that exceeds the 

simplified acquisition threshold. 

8. FAR 52.204–23, Prohibition on 

Contracting for Hardware, Software, and 

Services Developed or Provided by 

Kaspersky Lab Covered Entities. This 

clause requires contractors to report, in 

writing, to the contracting officer or, in 

the case of DoD, to the website at 

https://dibnet.dod.mil, any instance 

when the contractor identifies a covered 

article provided to the Government 

during contract performance, or if 

contractors are notified of such an event 

by subcontractors at any tier or any 

other source. 

Agency personnel will use the 

collected information to identify and 

remove prohibited hardware, software, 

or services from Government use. This 

information collection is required to 

comply with section 1634 of Division A 

of the National Defense Authorization 

Act for Fiscal Year 2018 (Pub. L. 115– 

91). 

C. Annual Burden 

Respondents: 353,291. 

Total Annual Responses: 843,253. 

Total Burden Hours: 387,083. 

Obtaining Copies: Requesters may 

obtain a copy of the information 

collection documents from the GSA 

Regulatory Secretariat Division by 

calling 202–501–4755 or emailing 

GSARegSec@gsa.gov. Please cite OMB 

Control No. 9000–0189, Certain Federal 

Acquisition Regulation Part 4 

Requirements. 

Janet Fry, 

Director, Federal Acquisition Policy Division, 

Office of Governmentwide Acquisition Policy, 

Office of Acquisition Policy, Office of 

Governmentwide Policy. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Agency For Healthcare Research and 

Quality 

Notice of Meeting 

AGENCY: Agency for Healthcare Research 

and Quality (AHRQ), HHS. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Agency for Healthcare 

Research and Quality (AHRQ) 

announces a Special Emphasis Panel 

(SEP) meeting on ‘‘Implementing and 

Evaluating Patient-Centered Clinical 

Decision Support Strategies in RealWorld Settings(U18)’’ 

DATES: January 10th, 2025 

ADDRESSES: Agency for Healthcare 

Research and Quality (Video Assisted 

Review), 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, 

Maryland 20857. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Jenny Griffith, Committee Management 

Officer, Office of Extramural Research, 

Education and Priority Populations, 

Division of Policy, Coordination, and 

Analysis, Agency for Healthcare 

Research and Quality, (AHRQ), 5600 

Fishers Lane, Rockville, Maryland 

20857. Telephone: (301) 427–1557. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: A Special 

Emphasis Panel is a group of experts in 

fields related to health care research 

who are invited by AHRQ, and agree to 

be available, to conduct on an as needed 

basis, scientific reviews of applications 

for AHRQ support. Individual members 

of the Panel do not attend regularly 

scheduled meetings and do not serve for 

fixed terms or a long period of time. 

Rather, they are asked to participate in 

particular review meetings which 

require their type of expertise. 

The SEP meeting referenced above 

will be closed to the public in 

accordance with the provisions set forth 

in 5 U.S.C. 1009(d), 5 U.S.C. 552b(c)(4), 

and 5 U.S.C. 552b(c)(6). Grant 

applications for ‘‘Implementing and 

Evaluating Patient-Centered Clinical 

Decision Support Strategies in RealWorld Settings(U18)’’ are to be reviewed 

and discussed at this meeting. The grant 

applications and the discussions could 


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